| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: pits were abandoned and he got his company away without further
loss.
His regiment fell back unpressed behind the fortified lines
between Namur and Sedan, entrained at a station called Mettet,
and was sent northward by Antwerp and Rotterdam to Haarlem.
Hence they marched into North Holland. It was only after the
march into Holland that he began to realise the monstrous and
catastrophic nature of the struggle in which he was playing his
undistinguished part.
He describes very pleasantly the journey through the hills and
open land of Brabant, the repeated crossing of arms of the Rhine,
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche's shrug was eloquent. Polichinelle ran on gloomily:
"Of course it was to have been foreseen. But why should you be the
one to go? It is you who have made us; and it is you who are the
real head and brains of the troupe; it is you who have raised it
into a real theatrical company. If any one must go, let it be
Binet - Binet and his infernal daughter. Or if you go, name of a
name! we all go with you!"
"Aye," added Rhodomont, "we've had enough of that fat scoundrel."
"I had thought of it, of course," said Andre-Louis. "It was not
vanity, for once; it was trust in your friendship. After to-night
we may consider it again, if I survive."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: to quote, brought the fullest conviction not only to Menteith,
but to the unprejudiced mind of Montrose, that in Annot Lyle, an
humble dependant, distinguished only by beauty and talent, they
were in future to respect the heiress of Ardenvohr.
While Menteith hastened to communicate the result of these
enquiries to the persons most interested, the outlaw demanded to
speak with his grandchild, whom he usually called his son. "He
would be found," he said, "in the outer apartment, in which he
himself had been originally deposited."
Accordingly, the young savage, after a close search, was found
lurking in a corner, coiled up among some rotten straw, and
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